Playing with Plays: Drama and Early Modern Chinese Media Ecologies /

Playing with Plays: Drama and Early Modern Chinese Media Ecologies /

How was drama experienced in early modern China? It was not tied to a single medium such as the page or the stage, but operated in a media ecology-an environment in which it integrated other arts and media while being refashioned in a variety of arts and media. This book explores a wide range of cul...

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Main Author: Wu, Yinghui (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Studies in the History of Chinese Texts ; 18.

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Chinese drama > Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 > History and criticism.
Chinese drama > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 > History and criticism.
Literature and society > China > History > To 1500.

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Call Number: PL2386

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures X
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  •  1 Plays and Media
  •  2 Media Studies as an Approach to Early Modern Chinese Drama
  •  3 Media, Remediation, Media Ecology
  •  4 Playing with Plays
  •  5 Chapter Overview
  • 1 Remediating Li Zhi for Drama
  •  1 Names That Became Brands
  •  2 The Media Environment of Drama Publishing
  •  3 Affective Immersion and the Experience of Immediacy
  •  4 Mosuo and the Experience of Hypermediacy
  •  5 The Inevitability of Mediation
  •  6 Virtual Theater on the Margins of Plays
  •  7 Conclusion
  • 2 Hypermedial Illustration
  •  1 Drama Illustrations in the Late Ming: Trends and Shifts
  •  2 A Social Typology of Figures
  •  3 "Figure-in-Landscape": Size, Proportion, and the Mode of Viewing
  •  4 Three Types of "Figure-in-Landscape": Traveler, Fisherman, and Female Performer
  •  5 Conclusion
  • 3 The Media Ecology of Qu Singing
  •  1 The Protean Culture of Qu
  •  2 Qu: the Legitimate Heir to a Poetic-Musical Tradition
  •  3 The Social World of Qu Connoisseurship: between Text and Experience
  •  4 The Interplay among Qu Singing, Publishing, and Connoisseurship
  •  5 A Connoisseur in the Making: Ling Mengchu and Publishing
  •  6 Constraints by the Singing Culture
  •  7 A Connoisseur in the Making: Ling Mengchu and Qu Performance
  •  8 Conclusion
  • 4 Media as Messages in The Sixth Book of Genius
  •  1 The Medium for the Message, or the Medium as the Message
  •  2 The "Multimedia" Sixth Book of Genius
  •  3 The Medium of Spirit Writing: Affect and Efficacy
  •  4 The Medium of Buddhist Sermon: between Orality and Writing
  •  5 Reading Xixiang ji and the Invocation of a Spirit Medium
  •  6 Sermonizing in the Commentary
  •  7 The Medium of Gong'an Dialogues: Orality and Performativity
  •  8 Gong'an-like Dialogues in the Commentary
  •  9 Conclusion
  • 5 Hypermediacy in Eight-Legged Essays on Plays
  •  1 Xi and Youxi, Theater and Gameplay
  •  2 The Eight-Legged Essay as Gameplay
  •  3 Playful Eight-Legged Essays in Print
  •  4 Eight-Legged Essays on Drama: (Not) Playing by the Rules
  •  5 Qing and Hypermediacy in Qian Shu's Elegant Taste
  •  6 Playing with Moral Passion in Eight-Legged Essays on Pipa ji
  •  7 Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1: Selected Playful Eight-Legged Essays on Xixiang ji
  • Appendix 2: Playful Eight-Legged Essays on Pipa ji
  • Bibliography
  • Index.